By Sinead Carew
NEW YORK, March 5 (Reuters) - AT&T Inc.'s chief Ed Whitacre, already the U.S. telecommunications industry's most renowned deal maker, has trumped his own record with a $67 billion plan to buy BellSouth Corp. .
Texas-born Whitacre, who engineered seven large acquisitions and a large joint venture since 1997, is making his biggest bet yet just four months after he formed AT&T Inc. from SBC's $16 billion purchase of AT&T Corp.
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